Thursday, February 19, 2015

All Preparedness is Local-Many, Many Resources You Can Use!

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from
injuring
one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Something we no longer have!

Preparedness Is Local:
7 Simple Ways to Get Ready

A famous politician once said, "All politics is local." The
same is essentially true for prepping. Let me show you how to get started on
sizing up, and making arrangements for, your possible needs in an emergency.

In any social disruption or national crisis, you can expect
diminished access to vital resources that come from national or large regional
distribution systems – food, water, fuel, medicine. Whether it's a natural
disaster, a terror attack, or social chaos, your access to key resources will
become severely limited or cut off completely.

When that happens, you end up totally reliant on local
resources.

Savvy preppers know it's important to get a feel for what's
available locally before there's a
disruption. Where does local food come from? What do you know about your local
water supply? What resources exist nearby that you can use now to make you more
prepared later?

Training Resources
You Should Take Advantage Of

SUGGESTION ONE:
Your local Red Cross offers a number of low-fee workshops – some are even free.
One of the classes many Red Cross branches offer is an Individual Preparedness
Skills Workshop.

This workshop teaches basic skills intended to help you be
self-reliant for an extended period of time. You'll learn basic preparedness,
emergency response, and recovery skills that you can share with your family,
neighbors, and colleagues and that you can
fall back on in any number of difficult situations. While the workshop is truly
basic, it gives you a framework you can build on for more advanced and
personalized prepping. I would highly advise you get friends, neighbors, and
family members to attend with you so you aren't shouldering the load alone.

Secure communication for preppers »Have you ever considered how
you would communicate covertly and/or securely if the need were to arise? It
could be for a number of reasons; maybe you simply don’t want someone to know
what you are talking about or maybe it is more serious and electronic
communications are not functioning because of an EMP. More »

Finding water in
an emergency
You’ve done everything right. You set up a food storage system. You stored
enough drinking water to last your household for a month. But what if something
unexpected happens? What if your drinking water is contaminated? Or spilled? Or
stolen? You and your family can’t live without clean water. So what do you do?

Ask any farmer, survival expert, Boy Scout, hippie or
prepper and they will tell you the awesome uses for charcoal- from improving
your garden to filtering water and field medicine. But did you know with a few
scrap parts you can run an unmodified internal combustion engine?

How to Find Truly Free Tax Software: You'd think "free" wouldn't be complicated. In
the world of tax software, it is. This article published on Forbes covers what
you need to know.

The Disease of Being Busy(On Being):"How
did we create a world in which we have more and more and more to do with
less time for leisure, less time for reflection, less time for community,
less time to just… be?"

The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment (Gallup): "There's no other way to say this. The
official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the
long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly
underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie."